OK measured the interior.
29.5" H but subtract 8" for compressor
19" W subtract 1" due to shelving supports
17.5 L but subtract 4" for compressor
Door shelving is 4"
So if the door is modified, then it is possible to squeeze four 3 gallon kegs on a shelf in the Sanyo.
Thanks for the info. 
You’re welcome. It may just be four 2.5 gallon kegs. Might have been thinking a bit too ambitiously last night.
Irony is lost…The cost to run includes the beer to be consumed…hence the $3,000.
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Ah… fatigue is an issue sometimes. Actually… since October, so 6 months 100 gallons, at a cost of about $3/G, so $300, x2= $600 a year… compared to close to 10K for commercial beer… I’ll take it.
[quote]Ah… fatigue is an issue sometimes. Actually… since October, so 6 months 100 gallons, at a cost of about $3/G, so $300, x2= $600 a year… compared to close to 10K for commercial beer… I’ll take it.
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My records have me about $4.50/galllon for the last several years (ranging between $3.80 and $6.50 per gallon per batch)…so $3/gallon is pretty good. I am all over the place, neither too light, nor too heavy…no IPA’s of any kind, no imperials, mostly all grain 5-6% ABV with the occasional 8% christmas beer.
I’m paying $.70 / pound for two row * 20-22 for the average beer = $14-=$16, two or three dollars worth of specialty grain = $17-$19
I reuse yeast but have to buy say every fourth batch so $2 = $19-$21. Say an average of 5 ounces of hops at $1.25 or so = $6 so now we’re at $25 to $27… some salts, a whirlfloc tablet, some propane water and electricity… call it an even $30/10=$3
Now there’s 128 ounces in a gallon so we’re talking $.30 for a 12 ounce beer… even if it was $.50 after the fermenteezers, keggerator and dishwasher do their thing…A case of SNPA is $38/24=$1.58 So I’m well ahead of the game. And we’re not even talking about the better Belgians. There the savings are enormous.
Rock on Oscar! Rock ON! The best I am doing is about 95 cents a pound on base malt (in my case, 2 row, Western)…I would love to hear where you are getting for less…I was 2 inches shy of starting my own brewery, and then I found a paying job…in that time, I checked out pricing for grains wholesale…they run about 45 cents a pound for 2 row…of course, if you buy tons, it is less, but 45 cents for a pallet and 43 cents for in excess of 10,000 lbs…and that is if I pick it up myself…which, living in Denver, (close to coors and a gazillion micros…).
I calculated my costs at about $0.35-$0.50 a 12 ouncer…my 2010 batch average was 0.46 cents a 12 ounce bottle.
Even at that, I didn’t include labor costs (hey, its a hobby, ain’t it?) and figured that below 50 cents a bottle is pretty good if you are going to compare with over the bar prices…my business model was 100% over the bar sales (with some discount for growler sales). My ultimate assessment was that small local brewery with only over the bar sales (and no restaurant) is the way to go. Launching into production brewery is suicide.
I scored pretty decent in Idaho. I can buy grain from the brewery there for 0.80 a #. Beats my 1.25 at the old LHBS. Can also gets hops there at a pretty good price. Yeast is another story. Said she will not sell me any of it. And, of course, any other odds and ends I’ll have to order online, but for the price of grain, I can’t complain.
I get 25kg bags of Muntons from a local brew pub for $35 out the door… 25 x 2.2 = 55 pounds… $35 / 55 = $0.64 per pound.
Why you sonofa…